Windows CE posibilities?

Gh0sTly · Post by **Gh0sTly** » Sun Dec 28, 2003 8:16 pm

I am new to Developing for the Dreamcast, I am currious as to if there is a Distro of Windows CE availible for this little Powerhouse. I tried the distro of linux, and found it to be slow, and to much for the DC to handle and be somewhat productive. I am curious to make it a "set top" kinda system with the use of a disk, i.e. no hardware mods. I know that WinCE is MUCH like windows in the way it opperates, and looks. I also know that some games were built for this system using WinCE. Is this at all possible?

neoak · Post by **neoak** » Sun Dec 28, 2003 9:10 pm

There is the WinCE SDK, but is illegal, and is not what you think.

It doesn't have a GUI, or most things that are common in the PC Windows.

BlackAura · Post by **BlackAura** » Sun Dec 28, 2003 9:31 pm

Windows CE on the Dreamcast works in much the same way that Windows 2000 does on the Xbox.

Essentially, you've got the kernel, a cut-down version of DirectX, a couple of other libraries, and that's it. The whole OS runs only the program you've written for it.

The DC distro of Linux, on the other hand, worked like a PC, which is hardly suitable for a games console. And it's based on a really old version with limited hardware support...

SuperLevel · Post by **SuperLevel** » Sat Jan 03, 2004 5:28 pm

I had thought about the same thing and had found a win ce sbi i will try to find it again.

Windows CE posibilities?

Windows CE posibilities?

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